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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
newspaper
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![Man in a field with a basket of gourds](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Websitethumbnail.jpg)
A field trip: growing safer vegetables in Bangladesh
Listen now- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Podcast/audio
headphones
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Story
menu_book
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
Story
menu_book
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![IVEP participant is crouched and feeding a baby calf with a bottle.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/image000000%281%29.jpg)
Seeing our lives through the eyes of an IVEPer
United States + 1 more
Jun 2024
Story
menu_book
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
menu_book
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![Two baby goats](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/RS116482_UGA20220208_agriculture_ml0008-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=NK-oCadQ)
Goats galore and more
Location
Lebanon + 5 more
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![A Ugandan woman holding a pig](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/a_pig_story.jpg.webp?itok=Bi_PWgjV)
Relief, development and podcast: Peace pigs / With Mary Ilero and Sam Eibu
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Food
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![Piglets on a farm in Uganda](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/a-real-life-piggy-bank-01.jpg.webp?itok=tkOeImPO)
A real life piggy bank
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Food
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A Ugandan woman holding a pig](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/a_pig_story.jpg.webp?itok=Bi_PWgjV)
Gift of a pig
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Food
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A Ugandan woman holding a pig](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/a_pig_story.jpg.webp?itok=Bi_PWgjV)
A pig story
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Food
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A man sits in a classroom and talks. There are computers behind him](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/RS117069_UGA20220207_education_ml0205-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=uzAvDfaz)
Relief, development and podcast: Empowering refugee children through education / Daniel Ameny in Uganda
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Education
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![child raise hands for turn at whiteboard](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/p4t_older_preschool_with_white_board.jpg.webp?itok=fzdBiR15)
Becoming beautiful trees
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Education, Migration and Refugees
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A Ugandan man stands in his field](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/samson.jpg.webp?itok=miTtb3oh)
When rain doesn’t fall like it used to
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Climate Change, Food
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![farmer walking through dry grass in Uganda](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/uganda_scenery_1.jpg.webp?itok=Uiu0a_dN)
Quand la pluie ne tombe plus comme avant
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Food, Climate Change
Location
Uganda
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A Bolivian farmer stands with his back to the camera. He is holding onions behind is back.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs115879_img_1376-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=n6uIZrvH)
Changing weather, changing lives
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Climate Change
Location
Bangladesh + 13 more
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![Bidali Augustine playing ludo with his siblings.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/mr._bidali_augustine_and_his_siblings_playing_ludo_game-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=In2Id40r)
New life after leaving home
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Migration and Refugees
Location
South Sudan + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Hands holding grain stocks](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/a_new_way_to_grow_cover_photo.jpg.webp?itok=TXP3Wz_9)
A new way to grow
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Food
Location
India + 5 more
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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